William Lilly's Quotes

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

There is a secret hippie within me.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

I'm not such a public person.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

I'm shy.

I'm such a technophobe.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.